Task of the Month for July 2011

[ninja9578]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. When you complete a task: go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done. Of course you still need to post the dream here because I check. Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. You will receive a special title and badge. You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task - Play a musical instrument, describe it's sound Advanced Task - Go to the Where the Wild Things Are, become their king

[ninja9578]

Where the Wild Things Are is a classic children's book about dreaming. In the book, he became their king by staring them down, but you may do it whatever way you want.

[Puffin]

I'll definitely playing the musical instrument, specifically a flute - although I've never even picked one up IRL.

[Aristaeus]

Hmm, interesting challenge. I have always known about that picture book, but have never actually read it. I guess this will be a good time to check it out from mine local library.

[PercyLucid]

Not a fun round, specially for the basic, but I'll get them done.

[Hyu]

I'm pretty confident about the basic task since I have played guitar a few times in my dreams. The advanced task on the other hand, I can't really picture myself doing it, probably because I've never read this book. I'm definitely looking forward to stories about the lands of the Wild Things. Maybe they will hopefully provide me with some inspiration on how to get there.

[MadMonkey]

I'm sure I'll get the bassic one done maby even tommarow morning. I have played my guitar a couple of times in my lucids. I seem to enjoy doing all of the basic ones but many of the adanced tasks lately havn't really interested me much.

[Aristaeus]

Wait a minute... I have read this book before! It was just so long ago that I had forgotten. I had a lengthy lucid dream this morning, but I could not find a single musical instrument, no matter how hard I looked. (Shrugs) Oh well. The dream was not all that vivid or stable to begin with. Well, now that I have read the book (again), I think I will try to complete both tasks before the start of July. Now that I have somewhat gotten the hang of DEILD'ing, I might actually have enough REM time to pull it off.

[ninja9578]

Aww, you'll find one in your next LD

[ninja9578]

F, I was playing the guitar last night, but wasn't lucid

[Entaria]

Oh, this is nice. Relatively simple (hopefully) basic task for my first real try at the task of the month. Hopefully I won't have any problems with that one, since I've been playing the piano for 15 years. Though I might try to play something else, just to make it more interesting... And time to dig out Where the Wild Things Are, if we still have it. Or watch the movie, at least.

[dreamcatcher81]

I like the jupitier one last month and since im a musician im going to try the basic task.

[ninja9578]

I didn't know they made a movie

[Aristaeus]

I completed the Basic Task in a short DILD I had this morning. I must say, I rather enjoyed the experience. In a weird way. Spoiler for Basic Task: Dream Log Entry, Date 7.1.2011 I spontaneously became lucid in the air after being launched from a giant garbage truck I was trapped in with Mr. Oogie Boogie. I was flying over what appeared to be a trio of train tracks surrounded by small stones and hills. The ground, much like the sky, took on a dark turquoise hue. At some point, I landed feet first on a flat clearing. Remembering the DreamViews monthly task, I immediately began to search for a musical instrument and eventually stumbled upon a field of floating brass instruments. The first instrument I grabbed looked like a euphonium made of shiny bathroom pipes, though the mouthpiece and parts of the bottom portion of the instrument were missing. I held out the instrument in front of me and slowly waved one hand over it. As mine hand passed over the instrument, the missing parts of the instrument appeared out of thin air. I raised the euphonium to my face and began to play a melancholy song. The instrument sounded virtually the same as a regular euphonium, but the notes were MUCH more intense, much more thunderous. Every note I played seemed to send vibrations throughout the ground. After I was finished with the euphonium, I moved on to what appeared to be a golden, human-sized clarinet that curled like a roller coaster loop. With mine right hand I seized it by its end and blew into it. The resulting sound was the deep booming and buzzing of a dozen ship horns. I then moved on to what looked to be a deformed, rectangular saxophone. I played a complex piece that I cannot remember clearly, the instrument sounded exactly like a real life saxophone. Sadly, it was shortly after I played the saxophone that I abruptly woke up.

[PercyLucid]

Good job! You are winged! I only teared away one pair out of you from last month! I will get these done by tonight, two or three nights tops!

[anderj101]

The basic sounds really fun. I've had opportunities to play musical instruments before in dreams, some with really interesting results. This one should enable an interesting experience, as I am going to play my keyboard as I fall asleep for the next few days. The advanced sounds fun too. I'm heading to the library on Tuesday to grab the book. Good luck, everyone!

[Puffin]

Will a harmonica count as a musical instrument? ^^'

[Atras]

I have to try this one I've always wanted to play a musical instrument in my dreams.

[Singularity125]

Ooh, if I ever become lucid this month I'll have to try the basic task. I have the perfect instrument in mind, too. Of course, I may have to improvise.

[Puffin]

Had a DILD and completed the basic ToTM! It was daytime outside. I was walking over a small hill, over a parking lot which only contained two or three rows for cars, and towards and outdoor amusement park that was fenced off with one very short tunnel that contained the ticket purchase windows. Past this, there was a small square hole in the ground, a long one that would go for about 10 feet and drop the person off at the amusement park, which was located underground. I tried to get in, and I didn't fit all the way. Disappointed, I walked away and became lucid; from there, immediately I remembered the ToTM. I grasped at air where a pocket should be, but eventually pulled out a harmonica. I put it up to my mouth and played it. It sounded a bit higher-pitched and less, well, harmonica-like than it should. The tune was low-medium-low-low-high, and this repeated two times before I went off to do other things.

[StaySharp]

Still hadn't my first real lucid dream but I'm trying up to this very moment. And I always wanted to play music in a dream so basically I would've done this task anyway as soon as I'd learn how to LD. Hopefully I'm going to be fast enough to make it in time, though I'm rather optimistic about that.

[Puffin]

Good luck with the lucid and getting the ToTM done! I'm sure you'll get it soon!

[Ctharlhie]

I've had music in so many of my dreams and played guitar in at least 3 so I'm pretty confident about the basic, and I'll try my best at the advanced

[Milliecake]

My first lucid this morning - and thank you very much to DV! Was pretty excited and stopped to do the reality check of breathing while holding my nose. I actually had to blow pretty hard but if confirmed it. I was exhilarated that I'd managed to finally LD, I wasn't sure what to do. I did some flying, then recalled this ToTM. Standing in an open field I had a violin, which I haven't played for years, and played Rhapsody on a Theme from Paganini on the E string - a pretty mean feat considering my violin skills never went beyond Mary had a Little Lamb :p I was considering whether it would be possible to learn to play a muscial instrument solely from dreaming the night before, which may have helped. The second task is interesting as my only experience of the Wild Things comes from the Simpsons episode. Might be a little too advanced for me anyway

[Kezune]

And with the first lucid of the month for me, I played the air violin and it actually produced a sound. :3 Details: Blue: Dream Red: Lucid Green: Task Spoiler for Basic Task: This dream starts with a storm. Drew, my dad and I were all living in a beach house, each with our own bed. I was laying in mine, worried about our safety when I remembered another dream (though I remembered it like it actually happened) and then the storm outside worsened and the house started rumbling and the windows were splashed with waves. It was like the ocean was trying to consume us all in the house. Then I remembered that I didn't actually live on a house by the beach. "For that matter, you can't see the ocean from my house." I did the nose-pinch test and the rumbling stopped, despite the water raging outside. My husband, Drew, and my dad both disappeared and the ceiling opened up. I looked up, decided to get away from the water and flew out of the house. I looked up at the sky and appreciate the dark night-time skies and when I looked back down, there was a city below me. I landed, and from here, I practiced double jumping. After messing around with gravity for a little while, I remembered the reason I wanted to go lucid in the first place, I wanted to do the Basic Task I read before bed. I heard a violin in the distance. At this point, I started to play the air-violin, just trying to keep up and, eventually, my 'invisible violin' started to produce its own sound. I floated up towards the tops of some buildings as I played my song. It wasn't long before I got so caught up in the music that I forgot that I was dreaming and lost my lucidity. Note: I've never played anything but a guitar.